Reconstruction:Latin/verruculum

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

From vericulum (“little rod”), with the ending changed to -uculum and with /rr/ taken from ferrum (“iron”). The first change is attested via Late Latin veruclātus (“locked, bolted”, found in Augustine), implying a derived verb *veruculāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /verˈroklu/

Noun

*verruculum (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. bolt (metal bar for keeping something closed)

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: verrocchio, verocchio (Versilia)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: vrij
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: verroil
  • Old French: verroil
    • Middle French: verrouil
      • French: verrou
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: borroll (Pallarés)
  • Occitan: varrolh (most dialects, influenced by *barra)

    Gascon: vorrolh, vorrelh

    Limousin: verruelh

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: aberruyu, alberruyu
  • Aragonese: birol (Belsetán)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: verrolho
  • Old Spanish: berrojo
    • Spanish: berrojo (dialectal)

Forms influenced by descendants of ferrum (“iron”):

• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: frogio
  • Piedmontese:

    Eastern: frocc, frucc

    Northern: foregg, frugg

    Western: froj

  • Romagnol: fròcc
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: ferroil
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: ferroll, forroll, farroll, ⇒ forrollat, ferrollat, forrellac, foriac
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: farrolh, ferrolh

    Languedocien: ferrolh

    Provençal: ferrolh

    Vivaro-Alpine: ferrolh

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese:

    Ansotano: forrullo

    Benasqués: farroll

  • Asturian: ferroyu
  • Galician: ferrollo
  • Portuguese: ferrolho, ferruolho (Minhoto)
  • Spanish: herrojo

Forms influenced by descendants of serare (“to bolt”):

• Aragonese: cerrollo, zerrullo
• Spanish: cerrojo

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “vĕrĭcŭlum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 286